Getting the Win at Bazaar
Over the years, I’ve considered racing the Bazaar Road Race many times, and this year I finally decided to do it. The road race in the Flint Hills is just close enough to NWA to drive there, race, and drive home in one day. The 47-mile course is an out and back course oriented mainly…
Ouachita Challenge Recap
Last weekend, I made the last – minute decision to race the Ouachita Challenge gravel race. This was the second year they would have a gravel race on Saturday ahead of the well-known mountain bike race on Sunday. Even though there were only about 200 riders in the field, there looked to be plenty of…
A Dry Day at The Mid South
The Mid South. One of gravel cycling’s biggest events. 100 miles on the gravel and dirt roads around Stillwater. Known for muddy conditions and a high attrition rate… or so we thought. This year brought dry and fast roads on a chilly day in which nearly a thousand riders finished the 100 mile distance. This…
Learning How to Gravel at Crusher in the Tushar
One of the events I was most disappointed to miss out on last year when the coronavirus shut everything down was the Crusher in the Tushar, a major gravel race in Utah that begins in Beaver, the birthplace of Butch Cassidy, and finishes with a climb to over 10,000 feet above sea level. The 69-mile course features 27 miles…
Opening the Season at the Ouachita Gravel TT
Saturday morning I opened the 2021 season with the Sham Events Ouachita Gravel Grind TT. I don’t typically race in January, but after last year, I was itching for some competition. The Ouachita Gravel Grind is usually a mass start event, but they decided to make it a time trial this year due to Covid-19.…
Back to Racing at Johnson City
This past weekend, I made the long drive to East Tennessee for the Johnson City Omnium. One of the races I make sure to include in my calendar every year, it features a road race that finishes atop a major climb, a short TT and a crit. As usual, there were several strong riders at the…
Second Overall at the Land Ronde Omnium
This past weekend, Ben Gramling, and I headed over to Oklahoma City for two days of racing put on by the students on the OU collegiate cycling team. The weekend started with a road race and a time trial on Saturday and concluded with a criterium on Sunday afternoon. Road Race The road race was…
La Primavera Lago Vista
This past weekend, Ben Gramling and I headed down to the Texas Hill Country for the 29th Annual La Primavera Lago Vista in search of some hard racing in warm weather. The weekend features a pair of 80-mile road races over 15 laps of a five mile course. This was the first time at the…
Gravel Debut at Hazel Valley
On Saturday, I lined up for my first ever gravel event at the Hazel Valley Gran Prix. The 54-mile course features over 6000 feet of elevation, with about 2500 of that coming on the back to back Bidville and White Rock climbs. It was a cool sunny day with dry roads, a perfect day for…
Podium Finish at Hotter ‘n Hell
This year was my first time to make the trip down to Wichita Falls, Texas for Hotter ‘n Hell. The 80 mile road race is held in conjunction with the largest century ride in the country, bringing over ten thousand cyclists to the city for the weekend. ON the flat roads of North Texas, the…
Omnium win in the Hometown Race
The Rogers Cycling Festival took place this past weekend with a new omnium format featuring and Eddy Merckx time trial, the Brick Street Crit, and the Walnut Valley Road Race. After winning the time trial and then picking up a few points in the crit, I had a small lead in the omnium standings heading…
Closing out the Tour of Lawrence with a Solo Win
The Tour of Lawrence is back and better than ever. The race featured three criteriums and an Eddy Merckx style individual time trial over the four-day Independence Day weekend. I had the Friday time trial and the hilly Sunday criterium circled as days that gave me the best opportunity for a result. After a disappointing…
Killington Stage Race
This year, I would make my first ever visit to the state of Vermont on Memorial Day weekend for the Killington Stage Race. The race has road races on Saturday and Sunday before finishing with a time trial on Monday. I got to the race courseFriday evening and had a chance to pre-ride the Stage…
A Disappointing Joe Martin
For 42 years, Fayetteville has been home to the Joe Martin Stage Race, one of the toughest stage races in the country. The elite amateur cat 1/2 racers faced two challenging road race courses on Thursday and Friday before the Devil’s Den time trial on Saturday and finally concluding with the downtown Fayetteville criterium on…
Back on Top at Tall Chief
This past Sunday, the City Title Cycling team traveled to Tulsa for the #Fullgas Tall Chief Road Race. The course is one of my favorites to race on, and has rolling hills, a few short climbs, exposed crosswind sections, and a 300 meter climb of an 8% grade to the finish. The P/1/2 race featured 3 laps of the 20-mile course. It was…
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